"Yes, that's right. At the police station, they just take fingerprints and an iris scan. And it is extremely secure."

"What do they do with the fingerprints and iris scan? Are they stored somewhere?"

"Yes that's right, so we know that someone's fingerprints only get used once."

"And nothing else? I'm not fond of my fingerprints being stored somewhere..."

"I'm not sure what else you even worry that they might be used for? The whole money system is protected by the most honest and trustworthy people here!"

"I guess I'll need to trust you." She follows Lina's directions on how to set up the phone to accept her fingerprints.

She quickly explains the situation to the police officer, who brings out 2 electronic devices with 10 white buttons, and a webcam that looks into Bonnie's eyes. She just has to put her fingers on the buttons and look into the webcam. "When you're a baby, one of the adults gives you an account instead of you having to get scanned like this!"

"Well, it's good that you have a system for non-babies who want an account then!"

She'll try to look at any screens that she can while not being too obvious about it, she's super curious to see how their software works!

...there's a list with large tickmarks, showing that she has had her identity positively checked, but she hasn't had her fingerprints taken, eyes scanned, or Access Card handed over yet.

Simple, effective. Nice!

She's more a fan of denser interfaces, but can't deny the value of something that Does One Thing and Does It Well!

She tries to put all her fingers on the buttons at once. Just to see what happens.

The tickmark about the fingerprints gets checked and turns green.

Uh! Good job on making that work!

It shouldn't be a high bar, and yet...

She tries to take a close look at the webcam, in a way which is plausibly meant to make her iris scan possible.

And then the next check box about the iris scan gets marked and turns green, and the one under gets a circle around it to bring extra attention to it, causing whoever is running the computer to walk into a back room and give Bonnie a card before clicking on the last box at the bottom. The card has a holograph effect, where it shows a long mix of numbers and letters and a shorter combination of the two, but they're only visible if you look at them straight on.

Oooooooooooh, shinyyyyy!

She will totally get distracted looking at the holographic effect.

"Ok, so now how do I set up my phone to talk to the card?"

She tries tapping the card to the back of the phone.

Tapping the card does nothing. "You have to, ahh." She finds the app on her phone. "Input the account number on the card, which is longer. And the password, which is shorter. And you can start using your own money!"

Tap tap tap tap tap tap.

"I think the first thing I should do is give you back the money you paid for me so far, how do I do that?"

"Paying someone else money is in another menu in the app." She points at the right button. "I'll send you a request for all that you owe me, OK? You should see it in that pay someone else menu. And then you just click OK."

She waits for the request, then - after double checking that the number seems to have the right amount of zeroes - accepts the transfer.

This is good, she really doesn't like having debts. Even if in some ethical sense she probably owes something to the government, but that's not a person, it's fine.

And if her world hopping is consistent, she's sure she'll be able to pay it many times over.

"I want you to meet some of the other kids! I hope you'll think they're cool."

"I'd love that!"

She's feeling the urge to disappear into a local-wikipedia rabbit hole more and more, but getting to meet new people, see new things is managing to keep it at bay.

For now.

She has a lot of neighbors, in her part of the skyscraper. And they're all super-friendly to her! One of them, a girl, gives her a hug and tells her that she wants to be good at hugs, to help people in hospitals feel nicer. Another one asks her what food she likes, because she likes making food for other people. A boy shows off his foam sword to her, swinging it around, and there's another one showing her some bright, shiny, smooth metal parts for some kind of machine.

Huuuuuuuuuuuuug!!!

"You give good hugs! I'm sure you'll do great!"

"Oooh, I love to try new things, and I like almost anything except... very slimy things? Uncooked egg whites and the like. I can eat it if I need to now that I'm grown up, but it's very unpleasant. Beside that, surprise me!"

Foam sword is cute, makes her think of Zorro!

Ooooh, she should totally bring DVDs next time she sleepswaps over. And a portable DVD player. And a power source? Electricity is electricity, but who knows what voltage they use. A solar panel? But she would need Earth money for all that, and to get that she needs to probably move something to Earth to sell? This feels like a pile of fetch quests from a poorly padded game, but she will eventually get very rich from this. And then she will buy her mum a nice house, and she will be able to afford a month-long Interrail, and hostels and food around Europe.

"What does the machine do?"

The girl asking about food asks Bonnie if she has any allergies and finds chickpeas OK to eat. And the boy with the metal part explain that it's used in a robot arm, and they have a lot of robot arms. He wants to learn the way to make them, but now he's learning how to look at parts and see that they're made right, like the one he's holding. That one is totally right!

"Oh, I love chickpeas!"

She has no clue how to check for metal parts, but robots are cool! "Oh, I totally need to bring some Asimov over... probably the whole of it."